On Ada Lovelace Day, four female engineers from around the world share their experiences of working in male-dominated professions. Now in its sixth year, the annual celebration of women working in the fields of science, technology, engineering and maths (Stem) is named after the woman now regarded as the world’s first computer programmer. Click here...Read More
“Notspot” – according to one dictionary definition, “an area that has no broadband Internet or 3G mobile phone coverage, or where this is very slow and unreliable.” Click here to read full story.Read More
Amazon is entering the handicraft market with the launch of a new online store for handmade goods. Handmade at Amazon is currently invitation-only, with an initial 5,000 sellers on the site. Click here to read the full story.Read More
A British company is hoping to use drone technology in order to plant trees in areas that have been deforested. BioCarbon Engineering recently spoke at the United Nations Solutions Summit about how the use of drones and 3D maps could help to plant trees in a cheaper and faster method than is usually done with...Read More
Microsoft has launched a laptop dubbed the Surface Book, as part of a suite of new Windows 10 products. It also showed off two new smartphones, an updated Surface tablet and a new fitness band. Click here to see the full story.Read More
A pact that helped the tech giants and others send personal data from the EU to the US has been ruled invalid. The European Court of Justice said that the Safe Harbour agreement did not eliminate the need for local privacy watchdogs to check US firms were taking adequate data protection measures. Click here to...Read More
How long do you think it would take to spot an intruder in your home? Let’s say they got in during the night, just to give them a chance. It would probably be only a few minutes before you would be calling the police or tiptoeing towards the intruders gripping a tennis racket or baseball...Read More
The rechargeable ring is intended to work wirelessly in conjunction with a host of other devices, whether a smartphone, light dimmer switch, or dishwasher. Click here to read the full story.Read More
The Snapchat filters that were introduced in an update last week — allowing people to send selfies with rainbow vomit coming out of their mouths — could soon be used to stick companies’ ads onto users’ faces. Click here to read full story.Read More
